There is when you are advancing the standing of one club over another on live television.
It's a big deal, honestly. It's basically a form of propaganda.
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There is when you are advancing the standing of one club over another on live television.
It's a big deal, honestly. It's basically a form of propaganda.
bluenorthwarrior
Player Valuation: £8m
Neville is often negative about Utd, but the very fact that he is does continue to show a preference.
For example, DCL goal all the punditry was about de gea, not the great no.9 play from DCL. Doucoure goal likewise all about the goalkeeper, not the great ball and run from Davies. A brief nod to James for his technique but no more than that.
For the cavani, Fernandes, mctominay goals all about the technique of the cross or scorers, a brief look at whether olsen slipped but quickly move on to it being all about the 'leap.
Either way it is about utd, if they score let's look at how, if they concede let's look at why. I dont think there is a deliberate agenda, its just the natural consequence of a stacked media.
For example, DCL goal all the punditry was about de gea, not the great no.9 play from DCL. Doucoure goal likewise all about the goalkeeper, not the great ball and run from Davies. A brief nod to James for his technique but no more than that.
For the cavani, Fernandes, mctominay goals all about the technique of the cross or scorers, a brief look at whether olsen slipped but quickly move on to it being all about the 'leap.
Either way it is about utd, if they score let's look at how, if they concede let's look at why. I dont think there is a deliberate agenda, its just the natural consequence of a stacked media.
4737carlin
Player Valuation: £90m
Not really, the example you gave, he was being asked as a United fan, that's different to commentating on a game like that clown against Leeds with his "nothing in it, he didnt mean it" ...etc comments when we are fouled
Bluerover
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Without really wanting to go over old ground on the Pickford/VVD incident, was very interested to see some comments in todays press about DCL's late equaliser last evening against the Mancs:
From Jamie Redknapp 'De Gea as a keeper has got to take everything. He's got to be brave and assess the situation. If he comes out with authority I have no doubt he wins this'
From Gary Neville a similar tone ''De Gea doesn't come out in line with the ball. You want him to come out and eat the striker'
So basically, If De Gea was to come and "eat" or come out with 'authority' and hurt DCL that would be OK as it is only Everton. Put the boot on the other foot as per Pickford/VVD and you have weeks and weeks of it in the press telling us all how dangerous it was that their hero was injured by Everton's nasty goalkeeper.
I am not really into conspiracy theories but when you see some of the recent stuff where the "big 6" appear to get preferential treatment and then you see something like this, especially from that useless d**k Redknapp who was one of the harshest critic's of the Pickford incident, then maybe there is some hidden agenda against the so called 'smaller' teams.
Thoughts?
By the way great take and finish by DCL, turning into a really great striker for the Blues and made his England team mate Harry Slabhead look rather poor
Completely agree. One rule for RS another for us.
I played at a low level in the 70s and 80s, and I knew as an attacker that keepers would come out and take everything in sight. No mercy. They were usually fairly beefy too!
Poor vvd gets all the sympathy, but the RS had tough, rough and downright dirty players, including keepers over the years.
The reason we were dubbed the School of Science was in contrast to our "rougher hewn neighbours".
Drico
Player Valuation: £60m
Oh, the whole Sky Sports angle is to provide the match analysis for the sole pleasure of Manchester United fans. No doubt about that. It was the same when ITV had the Champions League. Every United game was viewed through the prism of their fans - with no recognition whatsoever for the reality that half the audience wanted them to lose. Everton's role last night was the role taken by Juventus, Bayern, and Barcelona in those CL days: invisible.Without really wanting to go over old ground on the Pickford/VVD incident, was very interested to see some comments in todays press about DCL's late equaliser last evening against the Mancs:
From Jamie Redknapp 'De Gea as a keeper has got to take everything. He's got to be brave and assess the situation. If he comes out with authority I have no doubt he wins this'
From Gary Neville a similar tone ''De Gea doesn't come out in line with the ball. You want him to come out and eat the striker'
So basically, If De Gea was to come and "eat" or come out with 'authority' and hurt DCL that would be OK as it is only Everton. Put the boot on the other foot as per Pickford/VVD and you have weeks and weeks of it in the press telling us all how dangerous it was that their hero was injured by Everton's nasty goalkeeper.
I am not really into conspiracy theories but when you see some of the recent stuff where the "big 6" appear to get preferential treatment and then you see something like this, especially from that useless d**k Redknapp who was one of the harshest critic's of the Pickford incident, then maybe there is some hidden agenda against the so called 'smaller' teams.
Thoughts?
By the way great take and finish by DCL, turning into a really great striker for the Blues and made his England team mate Harry Slabhead look rather poor
The De Gea stuff is precisely why I thought Jordan Pickford did wonderfully well in ensuring Van Dijk did not score for Liverpool. Was it clumsy? Yes. Was it committed? Absolutely. Was it a pre-meditated assault? No. Jordan isn't smart enough for that.
I played in goal for years. I had many faults. Like Jordan, I wasn't the biggest. But I recognised sage advice when I read the autobiography of the great, albeit much maligned, Harald "Toni" Schumacher, who mentioned that "smaller goalkeepers need to earn the respect of opponents. One way to do that is to be hyper aggressive." Schumacher was not particularly small. He was not speaking of himself. But his advice was, in my experience, expert. I remember playing against lads who would push me when waiting for a corner. I used to simply fall over spectacularly. Referees ALWAYS spoke to the attacker and, more times than not, a free out would quickly ensue from the following corner. One thing I was VERY good at was rushing in kamikaze fashion from my line and, basically, throwing myself at any onrushing forward. It worked 8 times out of 10 when, in reality, a goal should have resulted every time. At amateur level, players aren't good enough to counter this and get spooked. At pro, it still works in some cases - as Pickford proved rather pleasingly in sadly unfortunate circumstances in the derby. Pray for VVD.
Lao
Player Valuation: £35m
nail on head here, but it applies to all of the ’top six’
If they lose, the post mortems are always about how they let it happen, not about how good the other team may have played. The Bruno Fernandes goal was ‘echoes of Cantona’, but if Tom Davies had scored it it would have been ‘an opportunistic lob’
summerisle
The rain, it raineth every day
It's a witch-hunt !
No words on our great comeback yesterday ?
No thought not let's move on...
No thought not let's move on...
Drico
Player Valuation: £60m
And, by the way, I don't have that much of an issue with this obvious bias. Everton haven't bought a ticket to sit at the top table for 30 years. Why would our goals or our concessions merit the same weight of attention on a pay-TV channel? The BBC is another matter.
Noisy noise annoys
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No conspiracy, just a lot of RS in the media and also, the advertisers push their agenda as so many RS watch at home.
Yep De Gea just didn't want to know there. Also, Neville is right, if that's say Rashford against Olsen I would want Olsen to come out and take out the ball, Rashford and anyone else in his path, especially with only seconds of the game left.
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